Assassination Quotes - Page 4

• I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

  Robert Baer

  Drones, Program, Wells

  "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

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• My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

  Robert Baer

  Effectiveness, Drones, Firsts

  "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

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• Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely explored this question. In doing so, she has crafted a fascinating psychological drama about one of the central events of the Civil War: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This book promises to stimulate lively historical debate, and will be a treat for every Civil War buff who always pondered that haunting question, “what made him pull that trigger?” Bravo on a marvelous achievement.

  Jay Winik

  Drama, War, Book

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• The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama - civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future - however fanciful it was - to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space.

  Ann Leckie

  War, Drama, Space

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• I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Memorable, Winning

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Years, Twenties

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to flee the Audubon after shooting Malcolm X, we know that Hayer confessed years later to his Imam in prison that there had been a walk-through a week prior to February 21st [1965] at the Audubon Ballroom.

  Manning Marable

  Men, Years, Shooting

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye [west] on the phone call, you cannot 'approve' a song you haven't heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Liars, Character

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.

  Manning Marable

  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.

  Sarah Vowell

  Writing, Dedication, Focus

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• As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.

  Coretta Scott King

  Mother, Husband, Law

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• April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

  Mira Grant

  Irritation, Political, April

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• An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

  Voltaire

  Government, Democracy, Form

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• The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Drama, Imagination, Liberty

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• Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Rights, Economic Inequality, Terrorism

  "Pope Francis: the humble pontiff with practical approach to poverty" by Mark Rice-Oxley, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

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• I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

  Jasper Fforde

  Believe, Eight, Years

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• Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm — hello there), clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  Sarah Vowell

  Country, War, Mean

  "Assassination Vacation". Book by Sarah Vowell, www.npr.org. March 2005.

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• One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Two, President Kennedy's Assassination, Silence

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.360, Penguin

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• Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.

  Rachel Vincent

  Differences, Justice, Would Be

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Blood Bound”, p.76, Harlequin

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• The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Hate, Character, Presidential

  1950 'Declaration of Conscience' address to the Senate,1 Jun, denouncing accusations by Senator Joseph R McCarthy.

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• Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

  Nelson Mandela

  Animal, Yield, Political

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• The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.

  Thomas Paine

  Jesus, Believe, Imagination

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.138

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• We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation and campaigns of assassination. And in the face of ancient divisions, you stood firm to help those Iraqis who put their faith in the future.

  Barack Obama

  War, Campaigns, Division

  Remarks on the End of the War in Iraq, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

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• Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

  George Orwell

  Color, Atrocities Committed, Tyrants

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